Chapter 10- The whole orchestra
At the Crap Shack, later that day:
"Hey, mom! I'm home!"
"Hey, kid! How are you?"
"Fine. Happy to done with finals. You? Why aren't you at work?"
"I took the rest of the day off to great my lovely daughter the way she deserves. Coffee?" Lorelai handed her daughter a cup.
"Bless you!"
"How did your final go?"
"Pretty good. I can't believe I'm done with my second year of college, though."
"Me neither, kid. But let's not mention that again because it will only remind me of how old I am. So what are your plans for tonight? We have to celebrate! I thought we could order pizza and watch a movie or something."
"I have to unpack but that sounds ok. But first I have to talk to you about something."
"Okay…" Lorelai's voice trailed off in confusion.
"Let's sit down."
"Is something wrong?"
"No…nothing's wrong. It's just something I have to tell you."
The girls sat on the couch, holding their cups in their hands.
"So what do you want to tell me?"
"Well…you remember Jess, right?"
"Jess…Mariano?"
"That one."
"What about him?"
"Well we're sort of…kind of…dating."
"You're what?"
"We're dating."
"Each other?"
"No mom dating other people. I thought I should share that with you. Of course each other."
"I'm sorry but when did this happen? The last time we talked you mumbled something about talking to him and now you're dating him???"
"It just happened, ok? I saw him Friday and we just…"
"You've just what? And what do you mean you saw him Friday?"
"Friday, after I talked to Mitchum I called him and he came and we talked and now we're together."
"You called him?"
"Yes…"
"Why?"
"I just did, ok?"
"So you broke up with Logan because of Jess?"
"Well…kind of. He came in my room Saturday morning and found me sleeping with Jess and…"
"You slept with Jess? I'm going to kill that jerk."
"Wait. We didn't sleep together that way…then. We just slept in the same bed."
"Then? So you did sleep together?"
"Not then. That night we just fell asleep in the same bed and Logan found us and he made a scene because he didn't want to understand that nothing had happened and that why we broke up."
"Oh…But you did sleep together?"
"How many more times are you going to ask me that? Yes, we did. Happy now? "
"No, not happy at all. I'm anything but happy right now."
"But we love each other…"
"And you figures that out in the last five minutes? I don't want to be the one who brings this up but did a piano fell on your head and you forgot all the things that he did to you?"
"I didn't forget that but his not the same kid he used to be. He's changed now!"
"Oh I see! So the whole frickin' orchestra fell on your head because, Rory, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but people don't just change over night!"
"You're being impossible!"
"Well that's mothers do when they think their kids are making a big, big mistake!"
"He is not a mistake, he's the guy I love and want to be with so if you don't want to accept that…"
"Then what?"
Rory got up and stormed out of the house, tears filling her eyes.
"Rory, come back here! We're not done yet!"
She heard her mother's voice yelling something behind her but just kept on walking. She went to the bridge were Jess was waiting for her. When he saw her, on the verge of crying he got up and hugged her.
"That bad, huh?"
Rory just started crying.
"Come on, baby…Don't cry…"
She looked up at him and smiled through the tears "Baby?"
Jess pulled her closer to him again and whispered gently in her ear "Baby…"
They stood there for a few more minutes until Rory calmed down completely.
"God, you must think I'm such a freak."
"Huh?" He looked at her a bit surprised.
"It seems like the only thing I've been doing this past few days is cry in your arms."
"It's not the only thing that we've been doing…" he watched her blush a little. "And you're not a freak, you've just had a few rough days." He kissed her on the forehead. "And you can cry as much as you want, just remind me to carry a box of Kleenex around with me from now on, ok?" She nodded and kissed him.
"Want to tell me what happened?"
"We fought."
"I kinda figured that out for myself."
"I told her and she said some things about me making a big mistake and orchestras and I got mad and stormed out."
"Slow down. What do orchestras have to do with this?"
"Apparently one fell on my head."
"Did it hurt?" he asked with a smirk.
"Not as much as it's gonna hurt when she finds you and kills you."
"Then I'll just have to make sure she doesn't find me." He kissed her and then looked at her and continued "Just give her some time to calm down and process things and you will make up, ok?"
"Ok."
"So…what do you want to do now?"
"I'm hungry."
"You know we ate 3 hours ago?"
"Fighting makes me hungry."
"Were to? Luke's?"
"Isn't it a bit dangerous?"
"I like living on the wild side. And plus Luke is in Woodbridge picking up something and isn't going to be back until much later."
"Luke's it is then."
They arrived at the diner 10 minutes later and discovered that it was practically empty apart from a couple of tourists and Lane.
"Hey, Lane!" Rory let go of Jess' hand and hugged her.
"Hi, guys!"
"Hi."
"So you're back home?"
"Yes. And I'm starving. Could you get me a burger and fries and some coffee, please?"
"Sure. Jess, do you want anything?"
"No, thanks."
Lane went in the kitchen to place Rory's order, while Jess and Rory sat at a table near the counter.
"Why is she staring at us?" Jess whispered one Lane was safely in the kitchen.
"Shit….I forgot to call her!"
"Huh?"
"I said I'd call her to tell her what happened between us and I forgot!"
"So you talked to her about me?"
"Wipe that smirk off you face! And yes, I talked to her. I'm a girl, that's what girls do. They talk to other girls about boys!"
"So how about I go find a place to hide from the wrath of Lorelai and you two get a chance to talk and we can just get together again later?"
"Ok."
He got up and kissed her.
"I'll se you later."
"Bye."
After he got out Lane came back and sat at Rory's table, placing a cup in front of her and filling it with coffee.
"Where did he go?"
"He wanted to give us some time to have a girl-talk."
"That's so sweet. Now tell me what happened!"
xxx
In the meantime, at the Gilmore house Lorelai was sitting on the couch flipping through the channels on the TV and thinking about what had happened earlier. She heard someone knock at the door and got up and opened it.
"Hello."
A/N: A bit of a cliffhanger, isn't it? -evil laugh- Sorry for the long wait but it seems that the world shatters to pieces if I'm gone for a week so I've been really busy solving stuff. I hope to get the next chapter up pretty soon but I don't know when. I don't really like this chapter but if I worked any more on it I would have never gotten it up so I just decided to post it as it is before I start deleting and editing again(I think I've written and re-written it about 20 times by now). Tell me what you think, ok? Thanks to all my reviewers, your reviews were the only things that made my week bearable.